Name the heat conservation mechanism that conducts heat form deep arteries to adjacent deep veins in the limbs

A) vasomotor flow
B) peripheral vasodilation
C) nonshivering thermogenesis
D) shivering thermogenesis
E) countercurrent exchange


Answer: E

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